NanoCommons User Guidance Handbook

A knowledge resource for the nanosafety community from the data and nanoinformatics shepherds

This online resource started by collecting and organising knowledge and training materials for the two strongly interconnected areas of data management for nanosafety and nanoinformatics but will be constantly extended to also cover areas like risk assessment, Safe-and-Sustainable-by-Design and nanofabrication directly profiting from data, tools and services.

The generation of knowledge, common to all these areas, can be visualised as two interlinked cycles. You can hover over the figure to access short introductions to the different aspects of the cycle. Click on any of the three general areas in the lower part of the figure to access information on that topic.

If you are

a nano scientist (wet or dry lab), who produces and wants to access and share data and knowledge
a data manager, curator or steward or even shepherd
a computer geek interested in nano
want to become one of the above

or are just interested in these areas, then this handbook is for you.

Working together

Even if much has been achieved as documented in this handbook, there are still many challenges as presented in the nanoinformatics roadmap.

EU US Roadmap Nanoinformatics 2030 This roadmap has been jointly developed in trustful cooperation among scientists of the European Union, the United States of America and a few other countries. Scientists with different scientific backgrounds, working in the field of nanotechnology, have cooperated with the main objective to provide as broad an overview as possible about the young and rapidly evolving field of “nanoinformatics”.

These are best addressed as collaboration of the complete community, intensive knowledge sharing and connecting everything resulting in a common data and nanoinformatics ecosystem.

Bridging Insights and Perspectives Working Towards a Harmonized Nanosafety E-Infrastructure for Data and In Silico Tools, 2020 U.S.-EU NanoEHS COR Workshop: Bridging Insights and Perspectives, September 16-17, Virtual Meeting (register to see the recording)

Many different research groups and projects (small and large) have and are developing data resources, software and platforms. The NanoCommons infrastructure is meant to be even one level above these platforms to bring them together and govern harmonisation and interoperability aspects across platform / projects / country borders. The success is dependent on the underlying platforms and services and since not all information on these can and should be reproduced here, we provide short summaries and access links to the partners’ websites, platforms and networks.

If you are a fan of collaborative research and want to get involved personally or with your project in extending and strengthening this community resource, you can find contact details in the About page.